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P. H. MONTAGUB.

FIRE ESCAPE.

No. 331,428. Patented Dec. 1,1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PATRICK H. MONTAGUE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- FOURTH TO THOMAS F. -MODERMOTT, OF SAME PLACE.

FIRE-ESCAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,428, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed September 18, 1885. Serial No. 177,475. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK H. MONTAGUE, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fire-Escapes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in Which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the nozzle of a fire-hose provided with means for carrying myinvention into execution. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of same. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3 8, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of a modified form of the device shown in the other figures.

My invention relates to a means for the escape of persons from burning buildings; and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the nozzle of a lire-hose, which is provided with a branch, B, in my preferred form, in which'are held balls 0 by a pin, D. WVhen the water is turned on, the balls are dropped into the body of the nozzle by withdrawing the pinD, and are shot upward by the Water and discharged into the building through a Window or other opening. Each ball consists of a coil of wire or cord, as shown in Fig. 2, to afford means for a person in the building to form a connection between him and the people on the ground, by which he can draw up a larger cord or rope to give means for his descent to the ground.

The balls of wire or cord may have any suitable covering.

In the modified form of device shown in Fig. 4 the wire or cord is coiled around sleeves F, which slide on the outside of the nozzle.

When the water is turned on, these sleeves are forced or pushed off the end of the nozzle, Where they are struck by the stream of water, and thrown thereby into the building in the same manner as the balls 0 and for the same purpose.

My invention could be applied to other purposes than fire-escapes-as, for instance, to shoot a wire or cord onto a scaffold for any use it may be desired to appropriate it.

In my Letters Patent No. 328, 331, dated 13th Oetober,l885, I have illustrated and described, but did not claim therein, the invention covered by this application.

I claim as my invention- 1. A missile consisting of a ball or coil of wire or cord, in, combination with a hose-nozzle, substantially as set forth.

. 2. A hose-nozzle formed with abranch for receiving a fire-escape wire or cord and having a cross-pin, substantially as set forth.

3. A ball of wire or cord, in combination with a hose-nozzle having a branch in which the ball is placed, substantially as set forth.

PATRICK H. MONTAGUE.

In presence of- GEO. H. KNIGHT, BENJN. A. KNIGHT. 

